New Car and more Baptisms!

Tuesday 7-12-11

Today we traded cars with some other missionaries - ours was getting kind of old so it was time for a newer one. Nice. Today was Lourdes' birthday so a few of us went over to the barber shop and sang to her. We visited the family that dad was able to meet - the in-laws were in town from Clearfield and offered to take some things back to mom and dad so I wont have to send them home later.

7-13-11

Today we taught an employee that works for some members. She had some questions about 'the cross' and why we don't wear one around our necks. She seemed pretty interested and said she will come to church with the member. We went next door to the barber shop - the one that Lourdes owns - she had a friend over that is a messianic-jew. We taught him for about an hour - that was fun. Then we taught Brenda everything else that she needs to know in order to be baptized this coming Sunday. She's had a pretty rough past but is so excited for the change.

7-14-11

We went over some things with our ward mission leader today - we ate dinner with him and had correllation. We're all really excited for the baptisms coming up this sunday. It was a long day of 'ward planning'.

7-15-11

Today we had our district meeting - I got a new suit last monday and was pretty exicted to wear it. We learned alot about our missionary purpose - I have a goal to get 4 referrals between now and sunday.. it will be difficult but i'm pretty sure I can do it. We visited Brenda again and talked with Eder as well. We ate dinner with the Guerrero's and then called it a day.

7-16-11

We went to the barber shop again to do some service - Brenda was having her 18th birthday party there so they wanted everything moved out. We spent most of the day cleaning up the shop and moving everything to the back to make room for everyone. We weren't able to go to the party but we heard it was pretty sweet.

7-17-11

Big day today - Lourdes, Brenda, Eder and Laura all came to church today - Laura is brother muller's daughter - she just got back from a month-long stay in texas and will be getting baptized next week. Church went really well - after the meetings we had the baptisms. I baptized Eder and Elder Cruz baptized Brenda. It was a really spiritual meeting - Lourdes said 'i'm next'. That will be awesome. We ate dinner and then headed to the shop again to eat cake and help clean up from the party. Good day.

 

I'm so grateful for you all - for friends and family that I can turn to and trust. Thank you so much for keeping me and the people i'm teaching in your prayers. Have a good week!

Elder Cottrell